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World War I, Shellshock and Psychotherapy

World War I, Shellshock and Psychotherapy. Hysterical Muscular Paralysis. from War Neuroses 1918 film. 19 th Century: Trauma Diagnoses. Traumatic neurosis (Oppenheim)—physical trauma causes neuroses; was compensated by the German state in 1889. Sometimes called a “pension neurosis.”

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World War I, Shellshock and Psychotherapy

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  1. World War I, Shellshock and Psychotherapy

  2. Hysterical Muscular Paralysis from War Neuroses 1918 film

  3. 19th Century: Trauma Diagnoses • Traumatic neurosis (Oppenheim)—physical trauma causes neuroses; was compensated by the German state in 1889. Sometimes called a “pension neurosis.” • Railway Spine (in US and Britain)—similar to traumatic neurosis • War hysteria (Bonhoeffer and Charcot) neurosis is due to weakness of the constitution

  4. British Bomb Throwers, 1915 The Sphere, 1915

  5. Patient with word deafness; could only hear word “Bombs” from War Neuroses, 1918 film

  6. Early 20th C. War Neuroses • Shellshock (Myers) or bomb concussion, initially thought to be due to shell explosion, and produced tiny brain lesions • NYDN—(not yet diagnosed, nervous?) term to replace shellshock in 1917 in Britain

  7. Hysterical solider and after cure from War Neuroses (1918)

  8. Treatments for Shell Shock • Bedrest, relaxation, baths, massage • Occupational therapies, e.g. farm-work • Hypnosis and Suggestion (Max Nonne) • Electrical Shock Treatments (Lewis Yealland, Kaufmann) • Treatment by isolation, fake injections • Psychoanalysis (Sandor Ferenczi, W.H.R. Rivers) • Return home or to hospital

  9. Electroshock TherapyMaudsley Hospital, 1918

  10. The Kaufmann Cure

  11. Transporting the Wounded

  12. Sandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud

  13. W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922)Instinct and the Unconscious (1920)

  14. Craiglockhart Hospital

  15. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

  16. "They" The Bishop tells us: "When the boys come back They will not be the same; for they'll have fought In a just cause: they lead the last attack On Anti-Christ; their comrades' blood has bought New right to breed an honorable race, They have challenged Death and stared him in the face."

  17. "Were none of us the same!" the boys reply. "For George lost both legs; and Bill's stone blind; Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die; And Bert's gone syphilitic: you'll not find A chap who's served that hasn't found some change.“ And the Bishop said: "The ways of God are strange!" (Siegfried Sassoon, 31 October 1916)

  18. Freud’s Death Instinct (Thanatos) “The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance to their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.” Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, 1930

  19. American Medical Association, War Medicine 5 (1944)

  20. Letting off Steam to shrink Resentment War Medicine (1944)

  21. From the Cartoon Booklet, “The Story of Mack and Mike”

  22. Mid-late 20th c. War Neuroses • World War II—Battle Fatigue • Vietnam— Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD, entered the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1980) • Gulf War—PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome • Iraq--PTSD

  23. Reports of soldiers returning from combat duty in Iraq with PTSD range from 12.9 % (panel at Institute of Medicine, 2007); 19-21% (chief of psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Psychiatric Times, 2006); to as high as 30% (Army Surgeon General, Veteran’s Today, 2006).

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